The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control
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The Red Terror and the Russian Revolution
Russia went from heady optimism of Revolution in 1917 to the red terror less than a year later. Professor Judith Devlin says that conflict was at the heart of this revolution. The civil war is so important because it does so much to forge the political culture of the new regime. We stay in Russia for our next item, when Olga Smirnova sends her dog into space.
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